Add UserContol to Toolbox without creating Windows Control Library

[Evan Stone]

Hello All,

I've got two C# UserControls in a standard Windows Application project,
but I'd like to be able to add them to my Toolbox so I can start placing
them on forms.

Unfortunately, it's not really clear how to do this, since all the
examples I've found in the documentation seem to show creating a Windows
Control Library, building the DLL, then adding it to a test application
project.

However, I'd really rather just contain the controls in the application
and not expose them as DLLs (and have to maintain them as a separate
project) if I can avoid it.

I expected them to automatically appear in my UserControls section of my
Toolbox (a la VB6), but I guess that was an erroneous assumption on my
part...

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

-Evan

 

[Evan Stone]

Seems like we may be looking at a bug here, folks.

Turns out that if I create a UserControl, it does add it to the Toolbox.
However, if I change the name of the control's file name (which is
exactly what happened earlier), the Toolbox loses its mind and the user
control vanishes.

So aaaaanyway.... now that I've lost two hours on this, I know what's
going on, and will avoid disturbing the house of cards from here on out.

///eks

 

[Evan Stone]

Seems like we may be looking at a bug here, folks.

Turns out that if I create a UserControl, it does add it to the Toolbox.
However, if I change the name of the control's file name (which is
exactly what happened earlier), the Toolbox loses its mind and the user
control vanishes.

So aaaaanyway.... now that I've lost two hours on this, I know what's
going on, and will avoid disturbing the house of cards from here on out.

///eks